autoload
Difference between PSR-4 and classmap autoloading?
PSR-4 standard requires of you a strict filesystem structure based on namespaces. Say you have an app in src directory with App namespace, then all sub-namespaces will mirror subdirectories and class names will be the same as file names without the .php extension. { “autoload”: { “psr-4”: { “App\\”: “src/” } } } src/ Foo/ … Read more
Load lib files in production
My list of changes after moving to Rails 5: Place lib dir into app because all code inside app is autoloaded in dev and eager loaded in prod and most importantly is autoreloaded in development so you don’t have to restart server each time you make changes. Remove any require statements pointing to your own … Read more
Autoload classes from different folders
I see you are using controller_***** and model_***** as a class naming convention. I read a fantastic article, which suggests an alternative naming convention using php’s namespace. I love this solution because it doesn’t matter where I put my classes. The __autoload will find it no matter where it is in my file structure. It … Read more
How to use spl_autoload() instead of __autoload()
You need to register autoload functions with spl_autoload_register. You need to provide a “callable”. The nicest way of doing this, from 5.3 onwards, is with an anonymous function: spl_autoload_register(function($class) { include ‘classes/’ . $class . ‘.class.php’; }); The principal advantage of this against __autoload is of course that you can call spl_autoload_register multiple times, whereas … Read more
What is autoload in php? [duplicate]
This will be of help to you about usage of autoload. http://ditio.net/2008/11/13/php-autoload-best-practices/ It’s a magic function that helps you include / require files using class name. function __autoload($class_name) { require_once $DOCUMENT_ROOT . “/classes/” . $class_name .“.php”; } It’s deprecated at PHP 7.2.0 and spl_autoload_register is recommended for that purpose.
Composer/PSR – How to autoload functions?
You can autoload specific files by editing your composer.json file like this: “autoload”: { “files”: [“src/helpers.php”] } (thanks Kint)